TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN NAPLES.
A veby tragic story comes from Naples. Ono night piercing shrieks were heard from the house No. 5 of the Via Cape Tecchia, ou the heights of that city. On the neighbours running to the house they saw a man all bloody holding a dripping knife in his hand standing on the door sill. “Do not kill me,” he said, “ for I have poisoned myself and have but a few minutes to live.” On seeing the police approach, however, he made a rapid end of his days. He placed the handle of the long knife to the wall and the point to his breast, and with a sudden rush forward he drove the blade into his heart, and fell dead before the horrified crowd. They then searched the house, and found in an inner bedroom the bodies of his young wife and three children all barbarously murdered. Their corpses were gashed frightfully. The wretched man, by name Nicolo Nixano, a chemist, is said by some to have committed the deed from . hopelessness of obtaining bread for his children. Others say the jealousy of his wife prompted the terrible tragedy.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1134, 30 August 1882, Page 4
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193TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN NAPLES. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1134, 30 August 1882, Page 4
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